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I just want to capitalize on these 2 years of experiences and learning of all kinds and to continue to do what I like as I like and especially as I feel! Without pressure and without headaches, without complexes, without pretension, simply doing things with integrity and conviction in "free electron" mode, self-taught, autarkic, autonomous in terms of approach, method, philosophy, way of doing things, modus operandi... Nothing more, nothing less! No big structure, no sophisticated equipment, no budget, no promotion all over the place, keep it simple with the means at hand and be resourceful! Minimal configuration, sobriety at all levels, without making waves, without moving heaven and earth so that one tends me an ear... It doesn't matter the repercussions, the number of followers, of listeners, of aficionados, the classifications, the statistics, the visibility, the profitability or the recognition... As long as I have fun discovering, rediscovering, handling, working, triturating, tweaking and arranging the sounds that have accompanied me since my youth... True process like an initiation with the axiom: the will to not give in to the easy way, to the innumerable data banks nor to the sirens of modernity offering to any person on a silver platter the opportunity to compose with the help of the last technologies in vogue! I just wanted to pick up where I left off "technically" 25 years ago and continue to express myself musically without submitting to the dominant codes and conventions. Of course, one of the essential parameters of the equation is to cover the production costs! Because even if these are reduced to the strict minimum, freedom always has a price! That of a society, of a system in which money, capital alone, seems to count! Also, in the idea that the production costs or the promotional constraints must never constitute a brake to the "artistic" experience, as modest as it is, or to creativity, it is by working to tinker with alternatives which are convenient to me, certainly sometimes somewhat shaky, that I really blossom! And I must say that there is something quite exhilarating in the challenge of managing to exist musically without submitting to the dictates in place, nor endorsing them! In my memories, it was the spirit, the culture, the ethics, the modus operandi of the past... (LOL) Those who knew the 80s and 90s will understand me! Without a doubt, I am somewhat naively attached to it... At least, what interests me and what I like to cultivate on my scale: it is the "little extra soul..."

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